New entries are always welcome!
Do note the difference between entering the game for the first time and making changes to your existing entry:
If you don't want to make any changes, you don't need to make any post here!
* New entries submit an entry with 100 shares as described below
* Existing players may only shift position for at most 20 of their shares each round, as described below.
Deadline for both edits and new entries is the start of first free practice.
Initial thread (including scoring rules)
Malaysia changes
China changes
Bahrain changes
Spain changes (including Bahrain entries)
Monaco changes
Canada changes
Austria changes (including Canada entries)
Britain changes
Submitting an initial entry
The first time you play this game, you shall submit an entry where you place 100 shares among the drivers, fulfilling these conditions:
* You may only hold 100 shares (or less, which doesn't help you) in total at a time.
* You can not own fractions of a share, just integer shares.
* You can place no more than 40 shares on any one driver.
* You must own shares in at least three drivers.
* You may not own shares in more than ten drivers.
* You may edit your first entry as much as you like until the edit deadline (first free practice) for the coming race.
Note that there is no limit to the number of shares available for each driver.
Also note that your initial entry is the basis for the following rounds too! You'll be allowed to change no more than 20 shares before each race, so make sure your initial entry looks at least 80% respectable...
Entry Example A from 1975:
E Fittipaldi 37
Reutemann 22
Depailler 16
Peterson 12
Ickx 10
Donohue 3
Editing your entry after the first round it takes part in
* After the first race your entry took part in, you may only change 20 of your shares at a time (for the next race).
* You do not have to edit your entry at all! If you so wish, you can leave your entry as it is from race one and not make a single change throughout the season.
* If a driver is replaced -temporarily or permanently- during the season, the shares placed on him will automatically be transferred to the replacing driver. So you could say that the shares actually are attached to the car number.
* You may edit your changes as much as you like until the edit deadline for the coming race.
* Edit deadline for changes is the beginning of first free practice for each race.
Example B:
After the first race, the shareholder who submitted the entry in Example A from 1975 realizes that the Lotus is a dud, and submits an edit to her entry as follows:
Sell:
Peterson -10
Ickx -10
Buy:
Pace +10
Reutemann +5
Depailler +5
Her new "portfolio" will after the entry look like this:
E Fittipaldi 37
Reutemann 27
Depailler 21
Pace 10
Donohue 3
Peterson 2
The above change of shares can perhaps best be written like this:
E Fittipaldi 37
Reutemann 27 (+5)
Depailler 21 (+5)
Pace 10 (+10)
Donohue 3
Peterson 2 (-10)
Ickx 0 (-10)
Posting changes in this way may make it easier for you to keep track of what your portfolio looks like, if you look back into these change threads.
Just look at the initial thread, and it's a bit of a drag to backtrack some players' changes!
An edit doesn't have to look just like above, any way is fine as long as it's easy to understand which driver shares are to be sold and which to be bought.
NOTE: I won't automatically be posting updates on what each player's portfolio looks like, so remember to keep track of what you own!
*** Share distribution and value *** DRIVER DShares Race Season VPP Owners Hamilton 442 19.41 368.78 51 20 Rosberg 369 16.20 307.87 61 18 Vettel 302 13.26 251.97 75 19 Bottas 222 9.75 185.23 102 17 Massa 171 7.51 142.67 133 14 Räikkönen 170 7.47 141.84 134 16 Hülkenberg 98 4.30 81.77 232 8 Grosjean 90 3.95 75.09 253 10 Ricciardo 89 3.91 74.26 256 10 Maldonado 57 2.50 47.56 400 9 Perez 53 2.33 44.22 430 7 Verstappen 51 2.24 42.55 447 6 Sainz 47 2.06 39.21 485 4 Kvyat 46 2.02 38.38 496 5 Nasr 32 1.41 26.70 713 4 Ericsson 31 1.36 25.86 736 3 Alonso 21 0.92 17.52 1086 3 Button 8 0.35 6.67 2852 2 Backpack 1 0.04 0.83 22816 1 The table above shows how the shares are distributed and the race points scores corresponding to these share distributions. A driver's share provides above average return when the driver scores more points than the value listed for him in the "Race" column. *** WDC points value for one share as a function of number of players *** # points/share 23 0.043913 24 0.042083 25 0.040400 With 23 players, if ten shares are moved to a driver his rating will rise by about 0.439 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1275 918 765 612 510 408 306 204 102 51 Rosberg 1525 1098 915 732 610 488 366 244 122 61 Vettel 1875 1350 1125 900 750 600 450 300 150 75 Bottas 2550 1836 1530 1224 1020 816 612 408 204 102 Massa 3325 2394 1995 1596 1330 1064 798 532 266 133 Räikkönen 3350 2412 2010 1608 1340 1072 804 536 268 134 Hülkenberg 5800 4176 3480 2784 2320 1856 1392 928 464 232 Grosjean 6325 4554 3795 3036 2530 2024 1518 1012 506 253 Ricciardo 6400 4608 3840 3072 2560 2048 1536 1024 512 256 Maldonado 10000 7200 6000 4800 4000 3200 2400 1600 800 400 Perez 10750 7740 6450 5160 4300 3440 2580 1720 860 430 Verstappen 11175 8046 6705 5364 4470 3576 2682 1788 894 447 Sainz 12125 8730 7275 5820 4850 3880 2910 1940 970 485 Kvyat 12400 8928 7440 5952 4960 3968 2976 1984 992 496 Nasr 17825 12834 10695 8556 7130 5704 4278 2852 1426 713 Ericsson 18400 13248 11040 8832 7360 5888 4416 2944 1472 736 Alonso 27150 19548 16290 13032 10860 8688 6516 4344 2172 1086 Button 71300 51336 42780 34224 28520 22816 17112 11408 5704 2852 Backpack 570400 410688 342240 273792 228160 182528 136896 91264 45632 22816 The above table illustrates the return each share gives for each finishing position given the current share distribution. *** VPP samples *** Players Shares/driver 5 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 200 300 400 23 4563 2281 1140 760 570 456 380 325 285 253 228 114 76 57 24 4761 2380 1190 793 595 476 396 340 297 264 238 119 79 59 25 4960 2480 1240 826 620 496 413 354 310 275 248 124 82 62 VPP as a function of number of players and number of shares placed on a driver. *** Return per share season history *** DRIVER TOT OZ MAL CHN BAH ESP MON CAN AUT GB HUN BEL ITA SIN JAP RUS USA MEX BRA ABU Nasr 23708 20940 0 1800 0 0 968 0 0 0 Kvyat 14366 0 720 0 1044 520 6936 1178 0 3968 Perez 12422 856 0 0 4960 0 4464 0 1282 860 Rosberg 11568 1224 1080 1278 990 1725 1600 1098 1475 1098 Vettel 10801 1440 2250 1215 710 1125 1350 710 876 1125 Hülkenberg 10690 2214 0 0 0 0 0 2492 4592 1392 Hamilton 10100 1375 1026 1400 1275 882 735 1250 882 1275 Massa 9437 1224 840 1170 129 1168 0 1240 2070 1596 Bottas 8736 0 1150 864 1620 1572 0 1560 950 1020 Räikkönen 7468 0 1248 1212 1800 840 728 1104 0 536 Maldonado 7038 0 0 0 0 0 0 3846 3192 0 Ricciardo 6818 968 198 528 2200 1122 1530 0 272 0 Button 5952 0 0 0 0 0 5952 0 0 0 Grosjean 3918 0 0 1434 1332 832 0 320 0 0 Verstappen 3832 0 2124 0 0 0 0 0 1708 0 Ericsson 3473 3012 0 461 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sainz 3442 724 1416 0 0 924 378 0 0 0 Alonso 1086 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1086 Backpack 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.